I have to admit I’m jealous of the Xbox 360, Wii, and PS3 owners out there who get to experience the upcoming Sonic Unleashed game being developed right now. I’m a huge fan of Sonic the Hedgehog games — especially Sonic Adventure. I remember playing the Dreamcast game and competing in first stage speed runs online using the built-in 56k modem :)
At any rate, check out the gameplay footage for the new game: Sonic Unleashed.
According to Wikipedia, the game should be coming out in North America on November 18th, 2008. Good stuff!
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Finally, the Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon that aired on ABC in 1993-1994 (known as “Sonic SatAM” to the fans) comes to DVD in its entirety. Many of those who managed to catch the show on TV well over 10 years ago fell in love with it then, and have been fans ever since. It had just the right blend of comedy, drama, and action, with no one of those standing out too much above the others. It was also a fairly dark show for its time. This is a much anticipated release in the Sonic fan community, and this DVD set contains all 26 episodes, collecting the complete series in one 4-disc set!
This cartoon was made back before the SegaSonic storyline really got developed, and you won’t be seeing familiar faces like Knuckles, Amy Rose, or the more recent characters from Sonic Adventure 2, Shadow and Rouge, simply because, well, none of them existed back then (Sonic 3, which was Knuckles’ first game, didn’t even come out until the year after it started airing). But that doesn’t detract from the show at all as there are plenty of well developed characters added here that weren’t from the games. This cartoon set-up the first real storyline behind the whole Sonic universe (in the U.S. anyway), and in my opinion, was one of the best American made cartoons ever. The Archie series of Sonic the Hedgehog comics was loosely based on this cartoon, but really failed to capture the quality of writing used to produce this show. (Archie has since moved on to try to emulate the games more).
Despite the age of this show, if you’re a Sonic fan, you definitely shouldn’t pass this one up. Definitely the best Sonic cartoon ever produced, in my opinion, as well as one of the greatest cartoons of all time. I’d give it more than 5 stars, but well.. that’s the most you can give here on Amazon.com :)